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| CTO : CCK calls to Liberalise Wireless Technology in East Africa | ||||
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| Africa East | 01 December 2003 | |||
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| The Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK), has called on East African countries to fully liberalise the wireless information technology sector to enable rural population participation in the unfolding information society. Speaking in Mombassa (Kenya) at the official opening of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) workshop on Internet Policy and Regulatory Policy, the commission chairman, Major Gen (Rtd) Peter Kariuki said that profit considerations in the communication sector have confined network operators in major towns, thus denying the majority of people access to telecommunication services. Kariuki said the number of people waiting to be connected in the region continued to grow rather than diminish. Radical measures need to be undertaken in wireless technology in order to help rid the region of poverty and in turn to empower people. Although East Africa is home to over 80 million people, it has less than 600,000 fixed telephone lines and close to only 2.8 million mobile telephone subscribers. The lowest number of regular internet users in Africa is also in the East Africa with 900,000 people getting access while the telecommunications infrastructure covers less than 30% of landmass that constitutes Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Resources:
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